Barbara Stanwyck
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| Name: | Barbara Stanwyck | |
| Status | Deceased | |
| Age: | 82 (July 16, 1907 -January 20, 1990) | |
| IMDB: | IMDb | |
| TMDB: | TMDB | |
| Smoking Status: | Unknown | |
| Type of Celebrity: | Actor | |
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| TMDB Popularity | 16.718 | |
| Biography (TMDB): | Barbara Stanwyck (July 16, 1907 – January 20, 1990) was an American actress. A film and television star, she was known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a strong screen presence and was a favorite of directors including Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang and Frank Capra. After a short stint as a stage actress, she made 85 films in 38 years in Hollywood, before turning to television. Stanwyck was nominated for the Academy Award four times, and won three Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe. She was the recipient of honorary lifetime awards from the Motion Picture Academy, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the Golden Globes, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and the Screen Actors Guild, has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and is ranked as the eleventh greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute. |
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Movies
Always Goodbye
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Two lightings by each lady. Bari inhales, but Stanwyck appears not to |
B.F.'s Daughter
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smoked in a couple of scenes |
Baby Face
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Three scenes. The first is side-on and her cigarette waggles slightly between her lips as she speaks just prior to lighting up. In the second she lights up in blissful triumph after compromising her boss. In a final scene she holds her cigarette between her finger and thumb for two heavy drags in quick succession. |
Ball of Fire
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She takes a cigarette from some guy and accepts a light |
Blowing Wild
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A brief scene smoking on a balcony |
Clash by Night
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Around twenty drags in all in nine scenes. Triple drags for maximum delivery on lighting up, dangling, no-hands puffing, talk-exhales, far-reaching side-on exhales, two scenes in which she stubs out and lights another almost immediately, one in which she exhales straight into her partner's face, and a great role reversal where she places two cigarettes between her lips, lights them simultaneously, removes them together, inhaling her double dose of nicotine and exhaling before passing one to her partner. A great performance from a great smoker. |
Crime of Passion
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She smoked in many scenes, including lighting her cigarette from a candle |
Double Indemnity
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A couple of very nice exhales in a scene where she plays a board game with her daughter, about thirty minutes into the movie. Also some talk exhale in that scene. |
East Side, West Side
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In an early scene Ava accepts a cigarette in the street, but the lighting and exhale are filmed from the rear. Later on her cheeks sink in as she lights up, opens her mouth to send the smoke down, but then exhales almost immediately. Barbara lights up at one point, but her exhale, though very visible, is filmed from behind. Beverley inserts a cigarette between her lips as she awaits a light, but we have to wait a while before we see two cool, though thin, mouth- and-nose exhales. |
Escape to Burma
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A single drag and exhale, filmed at a distance. |
Executive Suite
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Stubs out as she answers the phone |
Golden Boy
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a beautiful scene when the camera moves up from her bare legs to her holding the cig. Others scenes include ligthing, deep dragging and a perfect exhale. |
Illicit
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In close to every scene she is seen either lighting, smoking or extinguishing a cigarette. You could safely say she 'smokes through the entire movie.' |
Jeopardy
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This lady never disappoints! She accepts a cigarette in an open-topped car and takes her trademark multiple drags to ignite it. In the next scene, she lights with a talk-and-nasal exhale. A second drag is filmed from behind, but she turns as she inhales deeply and expels a thick cloud. She takes a third drag in mid-sentence, flicking her ash as she exhales thick jets from her nostrils. |
Stella Dallas
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good scenes |
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
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Stanwyck 4 or 5 scenes, lighting and dragging. An Asian girl [Mori] is also scene holding with a perfectly lit backdrop. |
The Gay Sisters
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One nice visible scene and two others of less quality |
The Lady Eve
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smokes in a couple of scenes |
The Lady Gambles
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Smokes only in two scenes toward the end of the movie - nothing outstanding |
The Love Goddesses
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A compilation of clips. Vampish smoking by Glaum and Negri. De Putti sensually rolls an unlit cigarette between her lips. Swanson exhales in close-up with smoke streaming unforced from her mouth. Dietrich smokes provocatively. West sports a holder. Stanwyck smoulders. |
The Miracle Woman
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Takes one drag early in film. Lights up, drags and exhales 46 minutes into the film. Also lights up at 1:01 into film with a couple of drags. Decent film. |
The Other Love
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Stanwyck smokes in a variety of scenes. Some excellent inhale/exhale sequences. Lorring smokes very briefly in only two scenes with one good exhale in each. |
To Please a Lady
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plays a hard-driving newspaper columnist shown smoking while watching a newsreel, in newspaper screening room, in opening minutes. Couple more scenes of her smoking, inhales and exhales, including scene of Clark Gable lighting cig for her in his mouth and passing it to her mouth. Maybe this was glamourous in 1950 but it has dated badly |
Walk on the Wild Side
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[Fonda] plays a prostitute in '30s New Orleans. A holder scene, a dangling scene, and a couple of naturals, and all of it really well lit (but in B + W). Great! |
Witness to Murder
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Several excellents shots |
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